Organization Behavior

The organization is a social unit that behaves both rationally and irrationally. The key to either is that leadership, motivation, and behavior are not a one-size-fits-all solution. The organization reward: positive inertia, excellence, flexibility, and resilience.

Information is not competitive advantage, knowledge is competitive advantage. Until you socialize your information amongst others you never discover if the value of your information is actual knowledge. …

A leader’s job is to not create a space that causes so much pain that people must move, but to create a compelling future vision people are drawn to.

If leadership starts their focus on what did not work or what you do not want to happen then effort goes into putting procedures in place that constrain. If leadership focus starts on what worked or what it looks like when it worked and the focus shifts to how it worked to and what is achievable, what is possible.

Appreciative Inquiry, as a principle for design and change management, allows organizations to change the focus. Where we inquire, we move and Appreciative Inquiry changes the change.

Your small business does not have the culture to succeed as a big business.

Initial ad hoc procedures may prove to drive those early revenues and perhaps the same procedures can manage a firm’s expansion to 30 employees, 75 employees, or 100 employees.

As the growth of a firm increases the amount of interactions and the dynamics of each interaction become more important. Repeatability, scalability, and human capital strategies are vital to have in place before growth.